How to pronounce/spell Lela

Blue1299

This is my great-grandmother's name and I've been thinking about using it if there's a DD2 in the future. I googled and it said Lee-luh, which is what I thought. Is that how you would pronounce it? Also, do you think it could be spelled any different (not in a kre8iv way, just differently)?

LMS05

Yes, that's how I would pronounce it. 

k*princess

The only different spelling I would suggest is Lelah. I like Lela better though. And yes, I pronounced it like Lee-luh. Pretty name

frozengrapes

In this country I would pronounce it Lee-luh

In Italy I would pronounce it Laylah

BabyNSR

I love this name. I have a good friend with this name who pronounces it Lee-luh, but she spells it Leila.

mcmann05

thelostiowan:

I would probably pronounce it Lay-luh. 

Yep this. For pronounciation reasons I might do Leelah or Leela.

sunnyday016

I've never seen this name before. I pronounced it LELL-uh in my head.

MamiJam

When I first read the headline I thought it was Lay-luh.  I would spell it Leela.

OctoberCAPA

I would pronounce it Lee-luh, and I would spell it like you have it.  Leila would be pronounced Lay-luh.  I like Lila better, but that would be Lie-luh.  I think Lelah would be Lel-uh.  Leela and Leelah look really odd to me for some reason.

kd990710

I'm naming my baby leila. (lay-luh) but people are asking me if it's lee-luh. Like pp said maybe you could do leela. i was going to do a different spelling of leila but i don't like the way laila or layla look...so i guess people will just have to ask her all the time how to pronounce it.

MamaJules84

I pronounce it Lee-luh.

Allie30

Lela = LEE-luh. (And I first read this post as "Leia" as in "Princess Leia." LOL)

Leila = LAY-luh, a traditional Arabic name, also spelled Laila and Layla. Like the Eric Clapton song. 

jessicadw

Lela - I instantly said "lee-luh" when I read the name

Layla - Is the spelling I'd use to pronouce it "Lay-luh"

BTW, your DD pic is adorable!

strangebird

Hmm . . . this is tricky. My eyes say lell-uh, but my head really wants to make into a logical name, so I would likely say Lee-la? How did you want it pronounced? I think you're going to have to adjust the spelling some to get the right pronunciation automatically:

LAY-lah: Leila, Layla, Laila, Laela

LEE-luh: Leela, Liela (but the eyes will correct this, so it will get mispronounced Leila fairly often and it could just as easily be LYE-lah)

LIHL-uh: Lilla, Lylla

LYE-luh: Lylah, Lyla

stahlop

sunnyday016:

I've never seen this name before. I pronounced it LELL-uh in my head.

 

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Honestly, I would probably pronounce Lela like lay-la.  Mostly because I have never met a Lee-la in my life. 

I'm not sure how you would spell it to get a definite "Lee" pronouciation.  I guess Leela maybe?  

For me, there are so many Layla (or Leilas), Lilas, Lolas...  Throw in Lela and you can see why it is butchered so much.  

karrizma

Wasn't Leela the purple-haired cyclops on Futurama?

I still like it though 

hlecroy

Lela is my grandmother's name and it is pronounced LEE-la.  She does have people call her LAY-la quite often though.

Regardless, I love the name and we had planned to use it if we were having a girl!

britab

I love that name; DH and I want to use it. Here's our dilemma. I would spell it Lila because in Spanish it's Lee-la and it means lilac (my favorite flower), but that's how you can spell Lilah too. I would say maybe Leela.

Amanda Red

its a name i'm considering too, but i would speel it Layla, from Eric Clapton's song of the same name

Amanda Red

Amanda Red:

its a name i'm considering too, but i would speel it Layla, from Eric Clapton's song of the same name

 ANd to clarify (if you have not heard the song) I would pronounce this version as Lay-luh, not Lee-luh...I think Lela could be either that you like. (and i realized that I wrote speel for spell haha!)

neonstarfish

StarAnnice:

thelostiowan:

I would probably pronounce it Lay-luh. 

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but with more sausages.